Test Driven Development
In this in-depth practical course, you will learn Test Driven Development and master different unit testing techniques, like mocking.
The focus of this course is on improving your unit testing skills, getting a better understanding of what a unit test is, optimizing test scope and performance, and learning techniques and guidelines for writing and maintaining unit tests.
Benefits
By participating in this course, you will:
- apply test driven development and mocking techniques to test code in isolation
- apply a number of techniques to break unwanted dependencies in code
- know how to start making changes and adding tests simply and responsibly
- know how to evaluate and improve your unit tests
- understand the system dynamics of unit testing and design debt
… and have fun! – we take pride in creating a fun and effective learning environment, mixing presentations with exercises and hands-on development.
Topics
The course consists of a mix of short presentations, live programming demonstrations, and lots of programming exercises.
- Why Unit Testing? – short and long-term systemic effects
- Test Driven Development
- Responsibility Driven Design with mocking
- Interaction-based vs. state-based testing
- Mocking Styles – when to use mocks, stubs, fakes, and dummies
- Hexagonal Architecture - a fresh perspective on software dependencies and test architecture
- Code Smells & Refactorings
Practical information
- Duration: 2 or 3 days
- We will provide the training infrastructure; participants need to bring a laptop with a current web browser
- Basic programming skills required
- This training is available as open enrolment and in-house.
- Programming languages: Java, C#, C++, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript, Scala, Kotlin